--- In [email protected], Roy Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I suggest watching the text scroll by throughout the boot process.
I think he *did* watch the text scroll, even if he didn't quote it all
verbatim. MEPIS7 prints the "verbose mode" keystroke (CTRL-ALT-F1)
prominently on the splash screen.
> Installing any Linux distro on a laptop is an iffy proposition
because they usually have lots of proprietary hardware and there may
or may not be any Linux support. Dell now sells laptops and desktop
systems with Ubuntu pre-installed, so they likely have support
available online. Whether they have old drivers is another question.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: james_jolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ok, linux gurus. I decided after hearing all the positive stuff about
Guilty as charged ;) I am by no stretch an actual guru, but rather a
beginning-to-intermediate user who tries to answer basic stuff that
I've worked out, so the real gurus dedicate can themselves to the
tricky stuff.
> Mepis 7.0 that I would install it on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop.
>
> Well things got to the live cd part that said
>
> pccard: pcmcia card inserted into slot 0
>
> pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
>
> Then everything stops. The device in slot 0 is a Linksys wireless
>
> card. I never had this happen with any distro excpet suse 10.3.
Betcha its stumbling on a missing or incompatible/generic driver.
Lucky for you, ndiswrapper is included in MEPIS7, now all you need is
a Windows *.inf for that wifi card. Got the driver CD for it?
google "howto use ndiswrapper" + (your linksys card name) to track
down details. There might even be a faq/howto in this group's files
section?
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